Soon the collection of GARBAGE, TRASH and RECYCLING will be transitioning. Please make note of the following changes in the collection schedule for NEXT week, Monday, Sept. 29th through Friday, Oct. 3rd:
MONDAY - 9/29: GARBAGE ONLY will be picked up for the entire Village.
TUESDAY - 9/30: TRASH AND YARD WASTE ONLY will be picked up for the entire Village. Your trash/yard waste container OR pile (not to exceed 2 cubic yards) may be placed out for pick up no earlier than Monday.
WEDNESDAY - 10/1: RECYCLING ONLY will be picked up for the entire Village using your existing bins. During the collection, the bins will be retained by Miami Shores Recycling. Your NEW recycling carts will be delivered throughout the week.
THURSDAY - 10/2: No collection.
FRIDAY - 10/3: Waste Pro will begin the NEW, regular collection schedule for GARBAGE and RECYCLING for the entire Village. Garbage is placed in your own container (40 gallon maximum) either on the CURB or SIDE YARD based on your response to our survey; and Recycling is put in the new rolling cart and placed on the CURB.
Your next collection will then be on Tuesday, October 7th for GARBAGE and TRASH. Garbage is placed in your own container either on the CURB or SIDE YARD; and TRASH/YARD WASTE is placed in your own container, OR in a pile on the CURB, no earlier than 24 hours before collection.
Going forward, remember these two days:
TUESDAY - GARBAGE & TRASH
FRIDAY - GARBAGE & RECYCLING
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at Village Hall at 305 899 8000, or via e-mail at villagehall@biscayneparkfl.gov. We are ready and available to assist you during this transition!
Village of Biscayne Park
So what are we supposed to do with yard trimmings that have accumulated over the week if they can't be put out till Monday? Does this mean you intend for us to pile them elsewhere and then move a perhaps rain soaked, decomposing organic mass on the day before pick up?....
ReplyDeleteYard trash will be picked up as usual on Tuesday next week. Our crew will pick it up. The next Tuesday, WastePro will pick it up. There should be no change or interruption, unless you live on an alley, as I do. I have always put my yard waste in the alley. From now on, I will put it out front.
ReplyDeleteFred
So now, as an alley dweller, we either schedule all yard work for only the day before front pick up...OR we pile it up and move it (on the day before pick-up). Either way, the new service will cause more planning and more effort for me than before.
DeleteMr Roman,
DeleteYou are absolutely right. We few alley-dwellers are the only people in BP who are inconvenienced by the new system. We will now do what all of our neighbors, the vast majority of BP residents, do: we will take our yard waste to the curb the day before it's to be picked up. Feel free to make it easier for yourself by piling it into garbage receptacles, which you can much more easily and neatly drag to the curb.
Yes, I agree with you. It is greater inconvenience for the few of us. It will require a bit more planning, at least for a very short time, until we get used to it. We can't dump yard waste out back every day, as we have done. We'll have to do as you say: plan for yard waste to get created the day before pick-up, or move it. As I say, you and I have now joined all of our neighbors. Maybe you didn't buy your house hoping to develop empathy for your neighbors, but empathy we will develop. We'll do more than that, too. We'll actually commiserate with them.
But here's the good news. From now on, our sanitation bill will be much lower than it would have been had we not outsourced. And if it matters to you, you won't go out into the alley the day or two after the yard waste pick-up day, and wonder why the yard waste wasn't picked up that week. I have had that experience from time to time.
Fred
Mr Roman,
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I'm right about this, but as there are very few alleys in the Village, and you and I have them behind our houses, I'm guessing you're on the same yard waste pick-up schedule I am. That's Tuesday for you, right? If so, nothing at all will change for you and me, except pick-up will be in front of the house instead of behind it. The other inconvenience for us holds, though: we have to dump the waste all on Monday, and we can't contribute to the pile any day we want, all week long.
I'm also guessing that underlying your response to this whole change is a feeling that you just like it the way it has always been, including (or perhaps especially or solely) because you get to use the alley. It may be that what you're indirectly saying is that you don't care if your bill will be much lower than it would have been without outsourcing. And it's not important to you that Village PW functioning will be very substantially improved by removing this unpredictable drain and destabilizing factor. Understood. You just like your alley. Just keep in mind that if you wanted, or would have "voted for," keeping it the way it was, you would have been advocating for much higher bills not only for yourself, but for everyone who lives in BP. And the convenience of having an alley to use for dumping of yard waste any time only applies to relatively very few of us. In a way, I'm sorry we/I didn't take Bob Anderson's and Steve Bernard's advice, and adopt a new in-house system for a year, before we gave up and outsourced. I think we would all have seen something very interesting when every Village homeowner suddenly got a sanitation bill that was unlike anything they had ever seen before. I'd hate to have been blamed for that bill, which I would have been, but I have a funny feeling we would have seen some very vigorous feedback. Or blowback. And I would have voted to do that, except that it would have required us to buy new trucks, which are very expensive, and hire two new people, and I did not want us to do the predictable thing (even to Bob, who more or less said he expected it) and sell new trucks at a significant loss and fire two new people we just hired, after we realized outsourcing would be better.
Fred